HIGHLIGHTS
- who: Christie D. Lavallée from the (UNIVERSITY) have published the research: The use of nocturnal flights for barrier crossing in a diurnally migrating songbird, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The study provides the first tracking evidence that swallows, generally considered to be diurnal migrants, can also incorporate night flights into their migrations, particularly when crossing large, open-water barriers.
- how: The results are consistent with birds using night flight to help achieve time- and energy-savings through ‘short cuts' at barrier crossings at times and locations when foraging opportunities are not available . . .
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